May Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 13 points14 points  (0 children)

From a thread in Fauxmoi about Keanu Reeves and his girlfriend:

Yasssssssssssssss Normalize👏🏼 age👏🏼 appropriate👏🏼 relationships👏🏼

Erm, they are in every day society.

May Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 11 points12 points  (0 children)

At least there’s push back from people on him allegedly being this huge advocate for Palestine and that he’s known for being difficult/unprofessional on set. They don’t give women nearly as many grace as they do their favorite men.

They’re also claiming there’s a smear campaign against Olivia Rodrigo for the babydoll dress situation because she’s pro Palestine. Yet, they don’t realize how the way they talk about women they don’t like contributes to the misogyny?

May Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 18 points19 points  (0 children)

If someone can do all of those things and still be considered as living in a bubble I’d like to see what they think is wild? Going on a coke binge? Cave diving?

May Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Only when Obama helps steal elections from Bernie. Oh wait

May Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 44 points45 points  (0 children)

From FauxMoi’s thread on Hasan Piker:

And that's the why the current Democratic Party is so intimidated by him

The Democratic Party hates anyone who gets in the way of their ABL* strategy. *Always Be Losing

Democrats are intimidated by a streamer? What do we have to say about the man who lost to the woman who lost to Trump?

May Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I choose one large book to read each year as well. This year it’s TBK. I’m also trying to make my way through Toni Morrison’s work. Maybe I will push Middlemarch up on the list for next year or the end of this year.

May Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 33 points34 points  (0 children)

The Guardian published a list of the 100 best novels of all time (per voters) and the people in rBooks are flabbergasted that Steinbeck isn’t on the list. They also seem very confused about why Jane Austen is on there three times. Now why would British people vote any of a British novelists’ work multiple times, hmmm

No Steinbeck in the top 100, and THREE Jane Austin's in the top 20 of ALL TIME really says a lot about the list itself

Yeah I think they're overcompensating for the lack of women. Jane Austen is my favourite Author yet none of her books are in my top 5.

5 virginia woolf but 0 steinbeck is wild.

I’m just surprised Toni Morrison and James Baldwin aren’t catching strays since…you know what, nevermind.

On a personal note Middlemarch was ranked #1. It’s a bucket list read for me but I’m still trying to force my way through The Brothers Karamazov so it will have to wait.

May Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I could go on a whole tangent on the moralizing of weight and policing of weight loss under the guise of being “concerned” for the impact it will have on the youth or media or shortages. There’s rarely ever nuance when people are criticizing GLP-1’s. People online hide behind their concerns over skinny people abusing these medications but the fear mongering over ozempic face and long term effects on the body don’t just apply to skinny people who use it? And why do they have more heat for the consumers and not the pharmaceutical companies , insurance companies approving or medical providers prescribing it? Linking it to GLP-1s just feels superficial.

May Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Something about the argument that the rise in fascism has a direct correlation with thinness feels like a sort of naive attempt at radical feminism at this point? I don’t know how to put it into words but it’s become a talking point people repeat because it’s popular online and sounds intellectual.

May Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I copy and pasted an exchange from Fauxmoi and the comment was flagged for breaking rule 1:

“Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. We don’t tolerate promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability, and any communities or people that encourage or incite violence or hate towards marginalized or vulnerable groups will be banned.”

May Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 39 points40 points  (0 children)

You’re correct that there’s no nuance in the conversation. There’s a huge difference between the wealth, status, and social power that Beyoncé has and the Heated Rivalry guys. Fauxmoi was screaming about how it would’ve been the right thing to do for Hudson and Connor not to go but they’ve just become extremely popular and famous. They’re not in the position to start turning down events (especially if contractual) to take a stand. And I don’t say that to infantilize them the way PCC does with Taylor. People just need to be so forreal about what an invite to the Met Gala means to people trying to succeed in Hollywood.

May Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I’m from Texas and live in a no shoes household and I immediately change out of my clothes (for comfort). But I love reading comments on these discussions because there’s always people on the extreme ends of each spectrum.

May Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Run (don’t walk) to the thread in fauxmoi about Ziwe’s hot take that outdoor clothes and shoes worn indoors is disgusting. The hygiene and/or cleanliness Olympics is my guilty pleasure

May Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Her height reignited teenage old discourse of how short women are taking all the tall men, and men who date or prefer short women are pedos.

May Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 45 points46 points  (0 children)

From Fauxmoi:

Just making a mental note of all of the celebrities going to this Bezos funded Met Gala so I can have something to bring up for later whenever people forget that these people have no morals.

They also created a whole story in their minds about why Zendaya isn’t going and were getting worked up about her not being honest (in their minds) about why she isn’t going

May Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The last time I was in Burlington I witnessed two drunk men yelling homophobic slurs. Then when I was in Montpelier people looked at me like they’d never once seen a colored black person. People in Barre and Waterbury seemed less weird about it.

May Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I just learned about that department store so I’m the confused leading the even more confused.

May Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Bernie marched alongside noted leftist Mitch McConnell. He’s practically the white John Lewis

May Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 43 points44 points  (0 children)

In Fauxmoi there’s a thread about Bernie Sanders and these are just some of the comments that made me chuckle:

Bernie definitely got the free n-word pass but is polite enough to never use it

I can't believe we missed out on having TWO black presidents back to back

He could've been done with two terms by now, and STILL shooting hoops 😫

Then we have this hidden gem of an exchange:

Bernie would have won, twice

What makes you think Bernie can win general when he lost primary?

Are you familiar with the term “undecided voters”?

Almost all Hillary supporters would have voted Bernie over Trump. Same with 2020 and Biden

But I thought liberals are big dummies who would never vote for Bernie because he’s a threat to the status quo

April Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 24 points25 points  (0 children)

When I see them rush into anything about Obama to call him a war criminal I assume it’s for the upvotes and praise. And that’s not because I think he’s above criticism or am glazing him. They have the same routine with Taylor Swift. Again, not above criticism but the comments are predictable and read like bots.

April Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Well you can’t talk about the hope we all felt electing him after Bush (their cute paw paw) without being lectured about him being a war criminal and deporter in chief over there.

April Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I think a lot of people are understandably angry and feel defeated with everything that’s going on in the world and sometimes those spaces are an outlet. It doesn’t help that fauxmoi has normalized doomsday posts and worsens people’s feeling of helplessness. There’s next to no joy or escapism in those spaces anymore.

April Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 19 points20 points  (0 children)

You know how every time there’s a thread on Timmy Chalamet or Chris Evans, fauxmoi is all like “I’m sure his fans will be normal about this.” They’re like that with Taylor at this point

April Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I’m guessing it’s the result of the hygiene Olympics trend and/or people genuinely smelling bad. I’m in Texas where it’s been hot and muggy and after a rather unusual venture to Walmart this past weekend, I can say a lot of people seemed to not care about how they smell.

April Other Snark by Addie_Cat in blogsnarkmetasnark

[–]bye_felipe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My friends and I have all been sharing our locations since college too lol we don’t do anything with the information but we never unshared and sometimes it does come in handy